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When you've added enough patches, operations, and hardware to the initial game, I think it's totally reasonable to be able to charge for that. Mojang should just sell a license of the server software (perhaps with better patches, yeah?) to resellers, ala cPanel or what have you.

They basically have this one-trick-pony which is now effectively maintained by the community at zero cost to them--no wonder they're being silly.

EDIT: Somebody should just release an extendable open-source clone of the game, with art assets, and just force their hand.